Shravak Bhoomi

SR No.: 002436
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Karunesha Shukla
Publisher: Kashi Prasad Jayaswal Research Institute
Total Pages: 618
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 10 MB

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ŚRĀVAKABHUMI
posed by him1.
But in the present state of our knowledge we can not definitely say that all the works were commented upon by Arya Asangapāda2.
Following the Sino-Tibetan and the Sanskrit literary traditions, the following may be considered as the genuine works of our author:
(i) THE YOGACARABHUMISASTRA or YOGACARYABHŪMISASTRA3 this encyclopaedic work contains abun
1. The Yogacara Idealism, p. 45, Ui, Maitreya as an Historical Personage, p. 99 sq., HIL, II.330-1.
2. We learn that he commented on AA, Uttaratantra, Madhyāntavibhāga, VCPP Sastra along with the MSA, but the extant works include MSAB and a verse-commentary on the VCPP (āryatrisatikāyāh prajñāpāramitāyāh kārikāsaptatih), vide MBT, I.I-128; references to the AA-comentary are found in AAA and AA, I:43, p. 310; III.17, p. 371; we are informed that Vasubandlu's Bhāṣya on the Madhyantavibhāga is based on the commentary (?) of Āryasanga, MVBT, p. 1; it is probable that Vasubandhu in the Introductory verse of the MVB refers to Aryasanga as 'Vaktā'; commentaries on other works of Maitreyanatha by Asanga are neither referred to in his accessible works in whole or part nor in the works of the extant Buddhist Sanskrit Literature. It does not seem proper, to hold (Wayman, Analysis, p. 40) that Asanga composed the verses of the MV., which is definitely a work of Maitreyanatha, vide, MVBT, pp. 3-4 sq.
3. It contains seventeen bhumis or stages of the career of a Bodhisattva (YBS, 1.3); the first part containing the first five bhumis have been edited by V. Bhattacārya, Calcutta, 1957; the second part comprising the remaining bhumis except the ŚBh. and the BSB. are being edited by Prof. A.L. Thakur; BSB. has been edited by Wogihara, Leipzig, 1908 and (with study and synopsis), Tokyo, (contd. on p. lxxv)